Sentences with phrase «food exporting countries»

Consumers Union of Japan is particularly upset about how food exporting countries, such as Australia, side with the GM industry, ignoring consumer concerns.

In the past two years, food exporting countries have devoted up to a third of their arable farmland to «bio-fuels», thereby doubling the price of food in third world nations since 2007.

Not exact matches

The company, which also exports poultry - and pork - based products to over 120 countries, has gone through deep changes since 2013, when Brazilian billionaire Abilio Diniz took over as chairman, pledging to make the $ 7.4 billion food giant leaner and more profitable.

Disruptions in Venezuela's oil industry can have outsize impact on the country, as oil brings in about 95 % of its export revenue, which has been used to purchase imports like food and medicine as domestic production dries up.

Instead, no less than 29 food - exporting countries responding by banning food exports and kept their crop production for a hungry domestic market.

As a result of that diversion from export markets, food price increases in those countries lagged well behind the ascent in world prices.

Foodstocks are continuously piling up but so are the number of people without access to adequate food, those suffering from hunger and starvation, while in the meanwhile there has taken place a major decline in the quality of food available to the people, thanks to the excessive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, more so in the poorer countries as the more hazardous pesticides are banned in the rich countries and both exported to and dumped in the poor countries.

The American food supply is so abundant that we can feed everyone in this country twice over, even after subtracting food exports.

Hungry people in countries that are exporting foods to us may refuse to continue that process.

In the Third World whole countries become mono - cultures oriented to export, depending for their food on imports from other countries specializing in other crops.

Aside from these, we also formulate for products being exported overseas based on specific food laws and regulations in those countries.»

This toxic pesticide is banned in a few EU countries but may sneak into exported processed foods — and let's face it, what doesn't contain wheat these days?

«The food, beverage and consumer products industry exports $ 50 billion worth of goods to 215 countries around the globe, generating a $ 10 billion trade surplus.

This has to be sparking excitement among small - to medium - sized businesses that have never been able to overcome the logistics of exporting to the United States The ITA says its country's food and beverage manufacturers» biggest challenges have been logistics and getting in touch with U.S. retailers.

Australian Country Choice's David Foote, who exports about $ 100 million in beef to countries other than China, has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with one of China's largest food manufacturing companies Bright Foods.

Food and beverage packaging is exported to customers in countries throughout Europe.

Further, although Australia has high food safety standards when compared to many Asian export markets, it was only ranked 14th out of 17 OECD countries, outscored by competitor nations within Europe and North America.86 Industry interviews suggested this was largely due to poor R&D support from government, the patchwork of auditors and poor information flow across the country.

«We're probably only supplying about 50 per cent of the demand,» Mr Jackson said of the decision to expand steadily in China, which is now Sanitarium Health Food Company's No. 1 export market for breakfast cereal out of 29 countries it sells into.

On top of that, some of Iran's neighboring countries are food importers and so we have a great opportunity to capture their markets, provided we adopt export - oriented policies.

However, weakened competitiveness of local agricultural products compared to counterparts from other countries, incompatibility with international standards and absence of export plans have undermined the export of food products in non-oil exports.

Irish food and drink exports have exceeded 11 billion despite the fall in exports to the UK, according to figures from the country's food board, Bord Bia, a total increase of 41 % since 2010.

To give you an idea: on a global spectrum UK food and drink was exported globally to over 217 countries in 2016 reached over # 20 billion in value for the first time ever.

Japan's growing taste for Scotch whisky has seen the value of Scottish food and drink exports to the country surging to almost # 100 million.

In 2016, 1.34 million kangaroos were killed for the commercial industry.2 Some skins and meat products are used domestically (a proportion of kangaroo meat goes into the Australian pet food market), and the rest is exported to other countries (two thirds to Europe) as leather or meat for human consumption.3 Kangaroo leather is widely used in the manufacture of sporting shoes and gloves as well as in dress shoes and accessory manufacture.

«As the standard of living rises in those countries, our high - quality food exports are in even higher demand, and that puts pressure on prices,» it said.

In consideration of global public health recommendations, including WHA Resolution 63.23, the WHA Global Strategy of Infant and Young Child feeding and the global impact of exports from the Union to third countries, the labelling and marketing of processed baby foods should make it clear that these products are not adequate for use by infants of less than 6 months of age and should not undermine the 6 month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation; Considers therefore that the labelling and marketing should be revised in line with WHA recommendations for foods for infants and young children;

[Para 12] Given the particular role of infant formula and follow - on formula in the diet of infants, it is important to ensure that products exported to third countries provide food information in a language easily understood by parents and caregivers, in the absence of specific relevant provisions established by or agreed with the importing country.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh has denied the reports by UN agencies of imminent famine in the country, saying that Nigeria is exporting food to other African countries.

Some countries also export significant quantities of water in the form of food and products, complicating their own water balance, as shown in Scientific American's June 2012 Graphic Science column.

With an increase in farming adaptation technologies, Eckard said he's confident the country will even go as far as to increase the amount of food it exports in the future.

Although the U.S. and Europe have strong regulations in place to restrict how much of the toxin can be present in food, the problem has been persistent in developing countries where there are rarely tests for aflatoxin at the market (although there are rigorous tests for crops being exported internationally).

It doubled its food production and is now a major food - exporting country.

When countries put up trade barriers to keep their own harvests from being exported, prices doubled, according to an index of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Global markets for food, however, spectacularly failed in 2008 as countries shut down exports in the face of rising grain prices.

Those countries, such as Sweden, that do not use the sweetener in their own food supply can export it to countries, such as Hungary, that are willing to buy more for residents.

First, the chicken and turkey feet can be exported to Asian countries as a «delicacy food» for human consumption, even though in the U.S. chicken feet are not recognized for authorized by the FDA to be sold for human consumption.

Food quality is one of the most important issues APPA members face at the international level as more and more products are imported and exported from country to country.

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Though Russia is ranked 115 out of 163 nations surveyed and classified as a medium - risk country, the recent heatwave's impact on grain production and the nation's ban on grain exports, combined with a 25 % decrease in Canadian grain production in June, due to flooding, is causing fluctuations in commodity prices, in turn increasing food insecurity in the most vulnerable nations.

There is another school of thought - that human ingenuity and economic progress will get round the problem, as they have in the past, notably in the Green Revolution that transformed food - scarce countries such as India into lands of abundance, with food exports contributing to the national coffers.

Whatever size commitment is adopted, the clear path for a country that relies on food exports and tourism for a living is to create a branding win out of necessity, while keeping green jobs at home.

Groundwater depletion is embedded in the international food trade, with countries exporting crops grown from overexploited aquifers and setting up potential future food crises if the aquifers run dry.

Another «once - in - a-thousand-years» drought in a major exporting country this year would send food prices skyrocketing.

While African countries are beginning to explore the possibilities of farming biofuel crops for local household and domestic grid energy use, the consequences of growing biofuel for export to the wealthy countries so that they may maintain their energy intensive lifestyles, instead of growing food for consumption by Africans could be severe.

«At the same time Cameroon is giving away the country to export - oriented agricultural ventures, the country is importing $ 600 million of food each year.

World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food - exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.

As food prices climbed everywhere, some exporting countries began to restrict grain shipments in an effort to limit food price inflation at home.

As grain - exporting countries restrict or even ban exports to keep domestic food prices from spiraling out of control, importing countries are losing confidence in the market's ability to supply their needs.

This began in late 2007 when wheat - exporting countries, like Russia and Argentina, attempted to counter domestic food price rises by limiting or banning exports.

Most fundamentally, it involves the restriction of grain exports by countries that want to check the rise in their domestic food prices.